Articles by Julian Long

About Julian Long

Julian Long* loves hard, that’s just what he does. And he writes about what he loves. You can support his writing on Patreon. He's on FB if you can find him or you could hit up his twitter – @magnet4awesome – but it’s dusty.

The only way to have seen as much shit as Quincy Jones has seen is to be knee-deep in that shit. But where was he when all this scheming an lying was going on? When all the sucking and fucking was going down, where was Quincy Jones? How does he have so much dirt but emerge so clean?

JT’s problem is that he’ s fake woke. He’s got the moves down –but can’t get “the Movement” part in sync. He can perform Blackness, but never be it. And he cannot stand when people tell him he can’t have something he wants.

Certainly there is room for the stories of Dreamers – but the stories of Sons and Daughters of Bondage will not be cast off the shelf to make room for them. The stories of Dreamers will not overwrite the stories of those who inspired the dream and built the foundations and mooring upon which those dreams stand. Your narrative of hope is not bigger than my narrative of survival and triumph. (3.5 min. read)

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Shit like this is why anyone playing the victim rankles us so. Because we are used to people with privilege, and power doing dirt and crying foul. And we can argue about whether we see shades and shadows of this behavior among our own, but no one on the planet plays victim better than white people. Because white people know they are protected by a system that prioritizes white feelings over Black suffering.

The only media heat Mo’Nique has had in 7 years has been reports of her complaints that nobody been fuckin’ with her for 8 years. If we’re doing the Netflix math; Anti-heat + Rumors of “being difficult” + “I Coulda Been Your Cellmate” = $500K

At what point do we have enough self-love, or pride in one another to demand that some shit remain family business? How is it that we are comfortable to let someone who is here on a guest-pass shit on family?
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Black parent, teach your children that they are magic, because we see now that the schools are serious about their sorting. They have a place in mind for our children. They want to stake a place in the minds of our children. (7 min. read)